In a word, Excellent! Put Opera Mini on my 700p and at first, I was hacked off. The browser was lightning fast, but large pages would get broken up into three or four pages and I did not like that.

I didn't realize that the IBM Java settings were set to allow only 1MB per page...anyway, I moved that setting to allow 32MB per page and WOW! Smokes blazer...shames blazer...crushes blazer...throw in another adjective if you like!

Checked my speed report at http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed and while blazer was rendering at 250k (totally unacceptable for EVDO)...opera was cruising at a minimum of 650k and at times unmeasurable speeds. Not to mention, Opera Mini is free and is just looks a heck of a lot better than Blazer.

D'oh! those speed results do not represent your speeds, Opera operates under Proxy, so you're seeing results from Opera's servers. That said, I use Opera as my primary browser on the 700p because it's still very fast and renders very well imo

I didn't realize that the IBM Java settings were set to allow only 1MB per page...anyway, I moved that setting to allow 32MB per page and WOW! Smokes blazer...shames blazer...crushes blazer...throw in another adjective if you like!

how did u do that I have no setting to change in IBM java except install on some page ???

...the fact is, it's lightning fast. I couldn't care less about proxy or whatever else you are referring to...the bottom line is that is smokes the blazer browser and renders a much nicer finished product per page. I don't care how it arrives at that!

I agree. I would use blazer a lot more if were the default browser. This seems to be a huge omission. Almost a deal killer because most sites I frequent are linked from emails, through the use of genius, or bookmarks in Initiate.

...the fact is, it's lightning fast. I couldn't care less about proxy or whatever else you are referring to...the bottom line is that is smokes the blazer browser and renders a much nicer finished product per page. I don't care how it arrives at that!

i'm just saying the speed report .. err never mind I love Opera!! I'll leave it at that.

And if you guys haven't done so, go get the j9secpol.prc from any of the posts in my signature so you're not prompted with the internet permission pop-up when loading Opera.

Mine is crashing often and loading pages very slowly. I notice that under the IBM Java menu I don't have opera listed as a program. I installed from a .prc file from the opera website and couldn't locate any .jad or .jar files as the OP and even the opera website implies exist.

IBM Java Download is required, get it here (when you download the java app, go into the settings and make sure that you set it to allow the maximum amount of mb per page and opera will work very nicely…